Draft-rigging stop member.



W. A. GEIGER.

DRAFT RGGNG STOP MEMBER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYI, 1914- l y 1,139,665., Patented May 18, 1915.

W I TNESSES 'WXLMAIE` A. GEIGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINQIS, SSGNOR TG WILLIAM H. MNER, 0F CHAZY, NEW YORK.

DRAFT-:EIGGING STOP MEMBER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed may 11, 1914. Serial No. 837,689.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that il, Wimmer A. Galena, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of illinois, have invented a certain new and useful .improvement in Draft-Rigging Stop Members. One object of my invention is, to provide stop members for railway car draft rigging of efficient construction.

A further object is, to provide stop members in which there may be employed a web having a substantially continuous thickness from end to end thereof, and having convolutions therein forming the stop shoulders and reinforcing the stop shoulders by separable means.

' in the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stop member for railway car draft rigging, the same being shown in connection with a portion of a draft member. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on line 2--2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross section. of a pair of stop members in mounted position upon draft members, the cross section of one of said members being taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a stop shoulder reinforcing thimble. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a limiting -stop shoulder reinforcing thimble. y

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 6 indicates a portion of a draft member towhich a stop member is applied.

7 indicates a stop member consisting of a vertical web 8, preferably of substantially continuous thickness throughout its length, and secured to a/draft mem er 6 by suitable means, preferably the rivets 9-9 passing through said web and adjacent portions of the draft member. Near its forward end the web 8 is provided with a convolution 10 forming a pocket 11 between the web and the adjacent portion of the draft member 6, which pocket is preferably of a general triangular shape ina cross section. The rear face 12 of the convolution 10 forms the front stop shoulder. The pocket 11 is adapted to receive a reinforcing thimble 13, preferably conforming in general sha e to the walls of the pocket 11, the said thimble 13 preferably consisting of a hollow shaft 14 having a Banged head 15 at its end to prevent accidental downward displacement thereof. Near its rear end the web 8 is provided with a convolution 16, the forward portion of said convolution 17 forming a rear stop shoulder, the said convolution 16 of the web with the adjacent portion of the draft member 6 forming a pocket 18 to receive a reinforcing thimble 19, preferably of similar construction to the thimble 13 hereinbefore described. intermediate the front and rear stop shoulders the web l8 is provided with the forward convolution 2O and the rearward convolution 21, forming the front limiting stop shoulder 22 and the rear limiting stop shoulder 23. Each of these convolutions forms with the adjacent portion of the draft member 6 a pocket 24, each of said pockets being preferably substanu tially rectangular in cross section, and each adapted to receive a limiting stop reinforcing thimble 25, each of said thimbles preferably conforming in shape to the pocket into which it is to be received, and having in preferable construction a hollow shaft 26 provided at its end with a head 27 to prevent accidental displacement thereof from the pocket in which it is received. intermediate each stop shoulder and its adjacent intermediate stop shoulder, the web '8 has depressions 37, each to receive a head 28 of a rivet 9 therein. Thus the heads of the rivets between each stop shoulder and its adjacent limiting stop shoulder are countersunk, providing a smooth surface for the travel of the followers between the stop shoulders and limiting stop shoulders.

ln a draft rigging for railway cars, the combination with a draft member, of astop member secured thereto, said stop member having lateral offsets` between its ends to provide abutments, and aller piece in each of the openings formed between the draft member and the lateral odsets, each iiller piece being provided with a flange at its upper end overlapping the edge of the stop member whereby the fillers are secured in place.

WlLLlAM A. GEIGER.

Witnesses:

. @Amun G. RANz,

ELIZABETH M. Bnrrr. 

